Talk:Chuck Forsberg

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Possible sources[edit]

According to Forsberg's website, three sources covered a press event he staged to defend himself against claims made about ZMODEM's performance compared to Kermit. --Pnm (talk) 03:11, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's getting pretty bad when our sources for an article consist of clippings out of the subject's scrapbook covering his very own press conference. Everything that Google Books has found for me so far just says things like "Chuck Forsberg invented Zmodem...blah blah blah sliding windows and file transfers...blah" with zero biographical information at all. I think I added that military academy thing and I'm not even sure where that came from any more. Can anyone find a public, reliable source that admits to a particular year of birth for Forsberg? Is he the Baptist minister? Is he the weight-loss guru? I can't tell from what little I've seen. Surely someone who is notable enough to have a Wikipedia article written abou him has more public biographical sources than those just linking his name to his invention.

I've got similar problems at Clapp oscillator - every electronics textbook talks about Clapp oscillators, but who Clapp was, where/when he was born, etc. appears no place that Google reaches. --Wtshymanski (talk) 14:23, 9 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Though you sound frustrated, I think I agree. I posted the sources because I think it would be worthwhile to track them down. The coverage of the press conference might be folksy enough to provide some "goo." --Pnm (talk) 00:58, 10 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

IIRC, I attended one of his presentations about the performance of ZMODEM vs. Kermit. It was at Portland State University around 1990. He used a program he called "wank" as a noise generator to prove that ZMODEM had better error correction. He was a big man, with a weight problem due to a medical problem: he publicly alluded to this either on his website (which might be preserved on the Internet Archive) or in a USENET post.

There seems to be a lot of people central to computer development who worked at Tektronix back in the day, not only Forsberg but Ward Cunningham. I wonder if it would be worth the effort to compile a list of these persons. -- llywrch (talk) 15:20, 10 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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